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  • Poll [46 votes]: Should the Halo 2 servers be re-instated?
Subject: Should the Halo 2 servers be re-instated?

Guitar, paintball, and Halo control my life.

Poll: Should the Halo 2 servers be re-instated?  [closed]
Yes:  72%
(33 Votes)
No:  24%
(11 Votes)
I never played Halo 2, like a loser.:  4%
(2 Votes)
Total Votes: 46

Halo Reach and Halo 3 are games I play every day. I just can't let go. But yesterday I happened to look in the back of my game cabinet.... And I found Halo 2. I started it up, and immediately went to Matchmaking, thinking that's where everyone would be that still played it. Upon entering it, it said something about not being able to connect to Bungie servers. What????? Then I remembered.... Bungie closed the Halo 2 servers months ago. But why? Halo 2 is still a great game and deserves to have a place online with 3 and Reach! What's wrong with it? I know people have moved on but I don't see why Halo 2 is any worse that Halo 3. Given, I can understand if having the Halo 2 servers up slowed down Reach and 3, but why not say that instead of just closing it down? It's a fun game even if it is outdated and an original Xbox game. I still enjoy the original Xbox. Do you agree?

[Edited on 12.22.2010 2:20 PM PST]

  • 12.22.2010 2:17 PM PDT

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You can play Halo 2 Vista for PC using a XBOX 360 Wired controller. That's as close as you will get to Halo 2 Matchmaking.

I think the server's for XBOX games should be booted back up, but making Microsoft do something against their will is as likely as sticking a 5 pound rock through the eye of a needle.

  • 12.22.2010 2:37 PM PDT

Bungie did not close the servers.

Microsoft shut down online service for all Original Xbox games, because they won't be compatible with future updates, like an expanded friend list. There's nothing that can be done to restore service to any Original Xbox game.

  • 12.22.2010 2:51 PM PDT

Guitar, paintball, and Halo control my life.


Posted by: Switchfoot4
You can play Halo 2 Vista for PC using a XBOX 360 Wired controller. That's as close as you will get to Halo 2 Matchmaking.

I think the server's for XBOX games should be booted back up, but making Microsoft do something against their will is as likely as sticking a 5 pound rock through the eye of a needle.



I have Windows 7, will that work? Steam doesn't carry Halo 2.

  • 12.22.2010 3:03 PM PDT

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I agree 100%, although I am planning on getting Halo 2 PC on
X-mas... :D

But, it sounds like 343 is "remaking" halo CE, so hopefully they can "re-convert" halo 2 to is former glory on LIVE, with better graphics...

  • 12.22.2010 3:13 PM PDT

You know, when you're having a bad day, you just gotta let yourself go!


Posted by: spartain ken 15
I agree 100%, although I am planning on getting Halo 2 PC on
X-mas... :D

But, it sounds like 343 is "remaking" halo CE, so hopefully they can "re-convert" halo 2 to is former glory on LIVE, with better graphics...


Better hope they won't screw up.

  • 12.22.2010 3:21 PM PDT

Posted by: HiredN00bs
Arrogant hyperbolic exclamations of woe? Seems like a normal day for Halo/Bungie.net.

Xbox Connect, anyone?

  • 12.22.2010 3:28 PM PDT

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Posted by: greydelta38

Posted by: Switchfoot4
You can play Halo 2 Vista for PC using a XBOX 360 Wired controller. That's as close as you will get to Halo 2 Matchmaking.

I think the server's for XBOX games should be booted back up, but making Microsoft do something against their will is as likely as sticking a 5 pound rock through the eye of a needle.



I have Windows 7, will that work? Steam doesn't carry Halo 2.
Yep, it will.

  • 12.22.2010 3:32 PM PDT

You can always play on the PC Halo 2 but for them to re-open the Halo 2 servers, they would have to re-open the whole of original XBL, not worth it to Microsoft really considering the trouble they would have to go through for it to work for starters.

[Edited on 12.23.2010 5:00 AM PST]

  • 12.22.2010 3:32 PM PDT


Posted by: GanonSmash There's nothing that can be done to restore service to any Original Xbox game.
Wrong, anything can be modified by adding updates to the original games. Microsoft just didn't want to devote the time on games that are making next to no sales and very few people are playing.

  • 12.22.2010 3:49 PM PDT

In a time long past, the armies of the dark came again to the lands of men. Their leaders became known as the fallen lords, and their terrible sorcery was without equal in the west.
In 30 years they reduced the civilized nations into carrion and ash. Until the free city of Madrigal alone defined them. An army gathered there, and a desperate battle was joined against the fallen
Heros were born in the fire and bloodshed of the wars which followed and their names and deeds will never be forgotten


Posted by: Switchfoot4
Posted by: greydelta38

Posted by: Switchfoot4
You can play Halo 2 Vista for PC using a XBOX 360 Wired controller. That's as close as you will get to Halo 2 Matchmaking.

I think the server's for XBOX games should be booted back up, but making Microsoft do something against their will is as likely as sticking a 5 pound rock through the eye of a needle.



I have Windows 7, will that work? Steam doesn't carry Halo 2.
Yep, it will.


not nessesaraly, I would just want them to tske EVERYTHING from Halo 2 and transfer it into an xbox 360 title...

  • 12.23.2010 4:43 AM PDT

Yes.
YES.
YES.

Halo 2 Vista just doesn't have the player base.

  • 12.23.2010 2:12 PM PDT

I think 343 would be better off remaking Halo 1 and 2 for the 360 then sell them together. I would still buy them separately, but I think that's their best option to get people to buy the games.

  • 12.23.2010 4:34 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Will
Not
Happen.
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  • 12.29.2010 6:24 AM PDT

My Youtube - Halo 2 Online Co-op
BUNGIE AND MICROSOFT FAILS HALO 2 VISTA.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Halo 2 Vista has online co-op...not. xD

  • 12.29.2010 6:28 AM PDT